Project Updates | October 2023
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In this publication, we are going to introduce you to our project updates covering the period from July to October 2023.
EUOpenFood (EFSA FCDB)
Project partners were busy addressing EFSA’s comments and finalizing deliverable D1.1 “Search protocol, execution, organisation of the results, and future use” and have also successfully finalized next deliverable D1.2 2 “Methodology for the evaluation of data from national FCDBs including quality criteria, minimum requirements, and summary indicators”. EuroFIR and CAPNUTRA have performed food supplements data extraction from Mintel GNPD and have managed to convert them into a format compatible with FoodEXplorer, and partly match them (both automatically and manually) with the EuroFIR component thesauri, with the EFSA SSD2 Chemical Parameter Catalog, and with the FoodEX2 coding system. All results were discussed during the meeting with EFSA in September and the next official meeting is organised for December where next deliverables D1.3-1.5 will be discussed.
ALLIANCE
Sian Astley and Christina-Ariadni Valagkouti attended Consortium meeting in Bologna on 5-6 September 2023 and presented on Task 4.1 – Uses case scenarios, planning and preparation [M12-M19]. Presentation summarised preparatory work done over the summer on developing detailed plan to organise use cases scenarios, including analysing results from the Delphi questionnaires and insights collected in the deliverable D2.1 – Food Fraud Landscape, Strategic Gap Analysis, User Needs & Requirements that aimed at gathering use cases needs and requirements, exploring each supply chain and associated fraud risks, comparing current and envisioned workflows and starting to map requirements to achieve envisioned workflow for each of the seven food supply chains/pilot use case demonstrators – PDO/PGI Extra Virgin Olive Oil (IT), PDO Feta Cheese (GR), Organic Honey (FR), PGI Austrian Fava beans (ES), PGI Lika potatoes (HR), Organic pasta (IT), and PDO Arilje raspberries (SR).
FishEUTrust
FishEUTrust was present at the stand at Aquaculture Europe Conference held 18 to 21 September 2023 in Vienna connecting four EU project on Aquaculture (SAFE, EUMOFA, Sea2See, FishEUTrust) and also held joint oral presentation with its sister project Sea2See. Hana Mušinović will attend Consortium meeting in Florence on 9-10 October 2023, including workshop related to Co-creation Living Labs (CLLs). During that occasion Sian Astley will present online on WP9: Gender action and monitoring. Project partners presented the work performed in the recent months including developing the preliminary business process and digital method models. Technology & process engineering SMEs are collecting and reviewing the state of the art and available literature on the seafood chain models and process engineering and also collecting inputs from the key partners directly involved in the seafood value chain. Required input process steps and parameters are critical to complete the detailed and working executable model in order to integrate the envisioned innovative digital service use cases.
SWEET
Health and safety of sweeteners and sweetness enhancers are well studied, but not their environmental impact. WP5 has previously published papers on thaumatin (DOI 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137226) and steviol glycosides (DOI 10.1007/s11367-022-02127-9) and this month presents work on the environmental impact of aspartame and neotame. This is the first such study attempting to quantify environmental impact of neotame that shows there are significant uncertainties related to life cycle inventory data and data derivation method and further highlights the difficulties of conducting a life cycle assessment of highly refined industrial food additives – Suckling et al., (2023) Environmental life cycle assessment of production of the non-nutritive sweeteners aspartame (E951) and neotame (E961) from chemical processes: The SWEET project – Journal of Cleaner Production https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.138854.
Also published this week is an article on Environmental life cycle assessment of production of the non-nutritive sweetener sucralose (E955) derived from cane sugar produced in the United States of America: The SWEET project < https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-023-02228-z >, which describes An attributional, cradle-to-gate LCA was conducted on sucralose production in the USA.
Finally, the team is working on a paper describing the impact of replacing sugars in yogurts and drinks.
WATSON
Hana Mušinović and Christina-Ariadni Valagkouti attended Consortium meeting in Athens on 19-20 September 2023. Partners presented work done since the kick-off meeting in March including developing WATSON methodological framework to detect and prevent fraudulent activities throughout the six selected food chains – Wine (PT), PGI Honey (ES), Extra Virgin Olive Oil (IT), Meat (DE), Dairy (FI) and White Fish (NO). In addition, beside developing communication & dissemination strategy and Watson identity, two other deliverables were submitted – D1.1, the Watson Project Management Handbook, that provides an overview of all important aspects related to how Watson will be managed, and D1.2 “Data Management Plan, Ethics, Fundamental Rights, Data and Privacy Issues (Interim Report)” including Data Management Plan (DMP) that maps data used as input & generated per Task during WATSON lifetime.
Data4Food2030
EuroFIR contributes to WP6 – Communication, outreach and impact maximisation, ensuring information flow amongst beneficiaries and user communities as well as maximising exploitation of outputs. Our current efforts are focused on crafting case study infographics and summaries, to help disseminate the project’s activities across our networks.
There is an annual meeting of the project happening on the 6th of October in Thessaloniki, Greece. It’s a chance for the consortium to review what has been achieved, collaborate, and plan ahead. It’s proceeded by Synergy Days, where exciting ideas and innovations are sure to be in the spotlight.
Make sure to follow project progress in social media:
Data4Food2030 X (previously Twitter)
WASTELESS
EuroFIR is leading data collection, management, and integration (Task 4.1) considering Open Science and FAIR principles to promote interoperability, management, and governance of WASTELESS data specifically but food loss and waste data in general. The task has started this month and we’re working on the development of guidelines for data collection together with case studies leaders. EuroFIR is also actively involved in dissemination activities, and we’d like to encourage you to follow the project updates on social media platforms!
WASTELESS X (previously Twitter)
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